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X-ray disc reverberation modelling of the X-ray/UV/optical spectral/timing properties of Fairall 9
TALES doctoral candidate Michail Polioudakis had his first paper accepted for publication in Astronomy &[…]


TALES Second Training Event – Petnica Science Center, Valjevo, Serbia, 13-18 September 2026
Between September 13 and 18th 2026 the TALES Doctorate Candidates (DCs) gathered at the Petnica[…]


Preparing for LSST: An Autoencoder Approach to Anomalous AGN Variability
TALES doctoral candidate Natale De Bonis has recently published a scientific paper presenting a Machine[…]


Brewing, Raging and Lulling: a quasar storm caught in action
TALES members Antonis Georgakakis and Maria Chira co-author a new research publication presenting the rare,[…]


A Magnetically Supported Disk–Corona Model for Changing-look Active Galactic Nuclei Transitions
TALES doctoral candidate Marios Kouzis has published his first scientific paper, proposing a magnetically supported[…]


People of TALES – Meet Shashanth Sriramanathan
Figure Caption: Shashanth hiking at Cheddar Gorge (left) and along the Jurassic coast (up).


People of TALES – Meet Erin Umuzigazuba
Figure Caption: Erin (left) visiting the historical buildings and canals of Bruges in Belgium and[…]


People of TALES – Meet Tianying Lian
Figure Caption: (Left) Tianying with Sanxingdui bronze-figure-style sculptures at the Sanxingdui Museum in Chengdu, China.[…]


People of TALES – Meet Vicente Madurga Favieres
Figure Caption: (Left) Vicente standing next to the scale model of the Hubble Space Telescope[…]


People of TALES – Meet Valerio Pandolfi
Figure Caption: (Left) Valerio in the Roman Forum with a view of the Colosseum and[…]


People of TALES – Meet Marios Kouzis
The best part is that I get to do really interesting science without being isolated[…]


People of TALES – Meet Natale De Bonis
Figure Caption: Figure Caption: (Left) Natale on Fisherman Bastion in Budapest, Hungary.(Right) Natale during a[…]


People of TALES – Meet Michail Polioudakis
Figure Caption: (Left) Michail on Castel Sant’Elmo, Napoli. (Right) MIchail and his sisters at their[…]


People of TALES – Meet Nicolò Belgiovine
Figure Caption: Unversity of Padova, Department of Astronomy. Figure Caption: (left) University of Padova, master’s[…]


People of TALES – Meet Prathamesh Ingale
Figure Caption: Prathamesh @Neuschwanstein Castle, Munich, Germany


AGILE: an end-to-end Rubin-LSST simulation of AGNs, galaxies, and stars
TALES doctoral candidate Michail Polioudakis contributed to a scientific paper accepted for publication in Astronomy[…]


TALES Doctoral Candidates Achieve Strong Results in the MALLORN Astronomical Classification Challenge
TALES Doctoral Candidates Erin Umuzigazuba (University of Nova Gorica) and Natale de Bonis (University of[…]


People of TALES – Meet Amie-Louise Doherty
I grew up on the west coast of Ireland and moved to Edinburgh to study[…]


TALES first School and Consortium Meeting — Naples, 16–20 February 2025
The first TALES Training Event and Consortium Meeting was carried out successfully from 16 to[…]


Animation showing light flicker as supermassive black holes devour matter from their surroundings
New public outreach animation demonstrating the stochastic variations of the flux emitted as supermassive black[…]



